Re:The Danger of E-Books
by AngrySkillzz on Friday October 16, 2015 @10:18AM
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It's not theft; it's not even piracy. It's copyright infringement.
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Exactly. Let's not conflate sharing (making exact copies) with theft or the real meaning of piracy. It's copyright infringement, and we should be promoting works that fight against the copyright regime using Creative Commons licensing and other such free culture licenses. At at the very least we should reject DRM.
Re:The Danger of E-Books
by WalterBright on Friday October 16, 2015 @11:07AM
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For better or for worse, the 'real' meaning of words is what people intend them to mean when they use them. Piracy currently means copyright infringement.
Language is not fixed, the meanings of words shift all the time.